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r I ) New York City (Special).?Tire new Harper's Buzar kimono, may be treated effectively in foulards, -wash silks, India weaves, or lawns. The fuVues3 I plp^" ^ T '> r" <v. . r F' A KIMONO WITH RUFFLES. of the skirt may be pleated or gathered Kfi|y^o the yoke. The design provides box-pleats on each side of the )) a a li1^. y o k e, full sleeve (to be pleated or gatftwci^ into armhole), band for sleeve, and wide collar-band passing abont the neo.k. Where ruffled trimming is pre ferred, these bands may be omitted. If the garment is to do service a3 an invalid's wrap it may be lined throughout with veiling or thin flannel of contrasting shade. Where lawn, cotton crepe (a very serviceable medium), or Persian figured foulard is to be employed and the garment is to be used as a cozy lounging-robe for summer fcjjl wear, it will not need to be lined. An i3jf endless variety of pretty effects may be secured in kimonos by introducing S 1 yoke and bauds of plain color with skirt and sleeves of Oriental silks or iawns. White wash silk, lawn, or batiste may be embellished with pale pink, mauve, or blue silk bands ana | '/i 3rv PECFECTION fS yoke. If ruisles are used the material I for same should be cut on the straight of the goods and of uniform width? viz., five inches deep. ; Nine yards of material 27-30 inches wide will be required to make this kimono for a person of medium size. Petticoats From Paris. The group of gorgeousness in petticoats shown in the large engraving, straight from gay Paree, illustrates to what extent they carry the elaboration of trimming, of which they are so fond. Knife pleatiags, appliques, frills, ruches, lace, ribbon and the Bilk itself, all find a place on these chef d'oeuvres of lingerie. Silk is the textile Invariably used by the women of Paris for their underskirts for ordinary wear, and for state occasions and for high toiltts very rich brocades. In shape they follow the trend of the fashionable outside skirt, bavin# very nariow gores and a not exaggerated flare from the knees down. The latest ones close ou the Bide. A broad flounce is the most usual trimming for their bottoms, sometimes graduating from the back and sometimes straight around. Knife plaiting is mo$t used for these flounces, and in some cases this is done at intervals, leaving space for an embroidered or lace inserting or applique. , Incrustations of velvet or silk, as shown in one of this group, are also very fashionable. They begin on the flounce and extend half-way up the skirt. ~"'1 i -V Long Shoulder Effects* Women who have been bewailing the too terrible trying effect of the1 perfectly plain sleeve, will rejoice to hear that word comes from an authentic source that there is to be a little fullness in the tops of the sleeves, or a littl3 trimming to modify the an:? r\e I vorv cuwt, , v? wuioo, this WiU not be generally adopted, as yet many gowns are being still made with the perfectly smooth sleeve top. I The long shoulder seams de riguer | now have helped to bring about this change, and the desire;! result may be obtained by running a piece of the material down over the top of the sleeve, or a three-cornered cap, or cpaulettee, is used either loose or appliqued onto the top of the sleeve. Every device is employed to give the ? proper long shoulder effect and added fcreadth, too. Many of the lacetrimmed gowns have inserting carried over the sleeve top, ending in a point. Hat* and Cape* to Match. j A late mode that deserves mention, t | S&A- - r ' > | just because it is so very new aud ; i novel, but too conspicuous to find 1 favnr ia fUfl foaliirtri r\f Kactna lints nf I light tints and short chiffon capes to match, that are only suitable for midsummer wear. While this idea will undoubtedly be short-lived and scantfavored, yet it is among the novelties of the season. Combinations of pink and blue are most commonly exhibited, but one absurd creation was of pale green in toque shape, trimmed with bunches of green and purple grapes with a green chiffon cape tied with purple ribbons. Summer Street Gowns Shorter. ? Summer gowns for morning and street wear are being made decidedly shorter, some even quite to olear the ground, or at least to so stand out all around that there is no apparent train effect. The demi train is still en regie tor afternoon dressy gowns and indoor wear. Very few underskirts are worn this season under the dress skirts, and these are fitted exactly to the outside one with as little fnllness as possible, to preserve the correct slender effect. A Novelty In WaUta. A novelty in waists is made of ecnx | linen crash, woven with a coarse thread and open mesh, whioh makes it semi-trasparent. It is trimmed with bands of white linen embroidered in oolors, or with narrow heavy lace insertion and blacx velvet ribbon. The' ^mterinl really looks like common sacsm$**4jut it is rather stylish in [effect. ' ''VjVr-Vfcv.V * 1 FlQhu EffMtl,FraT?IL:M-:i,, Get a ficlla! Get a flchael yoa want to be ^martrget a fiohu! If yoa want the coining and proper .summer gown adjunct, get ,a fiotyM ' The prevailing ldea^in the dresa world at the present time kH run io; jfl,ohu effects and all kinds of figurei'$&y be becomingly dressed -vyith th$W$SO varied are they as to cat and tt|fraf6|jSaent. x ne snnmane iesr, The rose-petaled effect is 'dntfofiho handsomest of the season's parasols.. While laoe inserts in' silks, fowks horizontal or vertical, cor dings ?ij3> plisses of every variety at atnff arq so PETTICOATS. .j artistically treated ihik^ -the sunsbados of 1900 seem toppt a{l the other vears in the shade; ^ N?pUw^rijW.CJ?Iorc. In neckvrea^^bag lace scarfs knotted ends, I fnipire ties, berthas, fronts for bolero jackets, four-in.-n?.nd silk ring ncarfs, andthe familiar stock collar in a thousand forms comprise the assortment. " ' * l' A Ptetty V-SliappJ Neok. A Y-shaped neck, filled ia with transparent lace, is a pretty accompaniment for the lace uudevslcere. New Idea For Mournlii; Cnjie. A new idea is to furnish a red cloth i mourning cape with a short shoulder cape of drab cloth. Popular Tints. Khaki and beige tints of all kinds and degrees are very much worn. A -Decided Novelty. Coats finished off about the neck without a collar are decided noyellios this season. The one shown here is for a general utility outing costume, a light-weight, dark-colored Oxford mix- I ture, the facings of revers and cuffs being melton in a buckskin shade. The hat, a soft brown felt, is recommended for its becoming smartness. I DE. TALMAGUS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Splnntlor* of nonvor.?However Exalteit Our Idem* May I5? of the Home on High, They Are Far Short of the Reality What Awaits Us [Copyright lWu.l Washington,D. G.?In this discourse Dr. Tulmage lifts the curtain from eternal felicities and in an unusual way treats of the heavenlv world; text, I Corinthian*, ii., 9, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for tbein that love Him." The city of Corinth has been called "the Paris of antiquity." Indeed for splendor the world holds no such wonder to-day. It stood on au isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea Drlnglng the commerce ot Asia. From her wharfs, In the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and oonfounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge banded machinery suoh as modern Invenai iift-ort altlna from t&e sea uuu cauuvk ov^uai on one sldo aad transported them on trucks across tbe istlimas and set them down inthe sea on the other side. The revenue offloers of tlxe city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. Tbe mirth of all people sported In her isthmian games, ana the beauty of all lande sat In her theatres, walked In her porticos and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters everywhere known i for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties nf sculpture and architecture, while, standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian, brass. Yases of terra ootta adorned the cemeteries of the dead?vasos so costly that Julius Caesar was not satisfied until he bad captured them for Borne. Armed officials, the Corintharil, paced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief touohed. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent ^urdeii of columns, towers and temples (1000 slaves j nnd n a< fn/lol a/\ WtUUUK cm. uuu oukuo;, nuu u vnuuui thoroughly Impregnable that Gibraltar Is a'heap of sand compared with It. Amid all that strength and magntfloence Corinth stood nod deiled the world. Oh, It was not to rustics who had never seen anything grand chat Paul uttered this text. They had hoard the best music that had some from the best Instruments in a!l the world; they hAd heard songs floating from morning porticoes ami melting In evening groves; they had passed their whole lives amungr pictures uud sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass whiolilipd'beon molded nud shaped until no ?harlot wheel in which it had notqmKu&atttdwer In wLilcti It had not glit*er9^<?Bj| gateway trrnt it h:nl not a.-' aR,- It.was a bold thing for Paul to atina tbwe'amld all that and say: "All tbis is nothing. These sounds that come irom the temple of Neptuue are not music compared with the harmonies of which I apeak; tbe?e waters rushing in the basin of Pyreneare not pure; these statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite; your citadel of Acrocoriiithus is not strong compared with that *vhich I offer to the poorest slave taat puts down his burden at that brazen gate. Your Corinthians think this 4a a anlnmllit VOI1 tllinlt VIIU haV6 hoard all sweet sounds and a sou all beautiful sights, but I tell you eyo hath not seen oor ear beard, neither have entered Into the heart ot man, the things which Qod bath prepared for them that love Him." you see my test sets forth the idea that, however exalted our ideas of heaven, they come far short of the reality. Some wise men have been calculating how many furlongs loug and wide is the now Jerusalem, and they have calculated how many inhabitants there are on the earth, how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate? th<it after all the nations have been gathered to heaven there will be rsom for each soul, a room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet wide. It would not be large enough for you; it would not be large enough for me. I urn glad to know thut no buiouu estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. "Eye bath not seen nor ear heard" or arithmeticians calculated. I first remark that we can get no idea of the health of heaveu. When you were a child and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along the road or street. You had never felt sorrow or sickness. Perhnps later you felt aglow in your cheek and a sDilnsr in vour ster) and an exuber ance of spirits and a clearness of eye that made you thank God you we're permitted to live. The nerves were harp strings, aud the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustling ot the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the Lord. You thought that you knew what It was to be well, but there 1b no perfect health on earth. The diseases of past generations came down to us. The airs that now float upon the earth are not like those which floated above Paradise. They are charged with impurities and distempers. The most elastic and robusf health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom the gates have been opened, Is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul standing before the throne. on earth she was a lifelong Invalid. See her step now and hear her voice now. Catch, If yon can, one breath of that celestial air. Health, In all the pulses, -health of vision, healtn of spirits?immortal health. No racking cough, no sharp pleurisies, no consumlug fevers, no exhausting pains, no hospitals of wouuded men.v Health swinging in the air; health flowing in all the streams; health blooming on the banks. No head aches, no side aches, no back aches. That child that died in tbe agonies of croup, hoar her voice dow ringing iu the anthem; that old man that went bowed dowu witu tbe infirmities of age, see him walk now with the step of an immortal athlete, forever young again, That night when the needlewoman fainted away in the garret a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her forever. For everlasting years to have neither ache nor pain nor weakness, nor fatigue! "Eye bath not seen It; ear hath not heard it." I romark further that we can in this world get no Just idea of tbe splendors of heavec. John tries to describe tbem. He says "twolve gates are twelve pearls" and that "the foundations of the wall are garnished with all manner ofc preclou.i stones." As we stand looking through the telescope of St. John we see a blaze of amethyst aud pearly and emerald nnd sardonyx aud uuryttuprosus aua oapwuv, <* wuuuiuiu ui light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass aud a city like the sun. John bids as look again, and we see thrones?thrones, of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostles, Jhroues of the martyrs, throne qf Jssus, tliroas ol God. And we turn roan<1 to see the gloiv, and ft tj.-threnes, thrones, thrones! John 'BJdf us loot again and see the great pjft'oeasloa of the redeemed passing. Jesus, owhite horse, leads the march, and ail .tbe armies of heaven follow on whltelwrses, Infinite cavalcade passing; passlq? empires pressing into line; ages roUo~wing ago?; dispensation tramping' after/dispensation; glory in the track of glory; ^Europe, Asia, Africa. North and Souttt iLiierlca pressing into lines; islands of the sea shoulder to shoulder; generations before the flood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus rises at the bead of that great host and waves His sword In signal of victory ail HA I I ft-., A ? ) | LIVIVUO Or J: D Hnuu uuu aa VU.^^U-J swung oat aad all chimes rung aud all balleluiabs, ohanted, aud some cry, "Glory to God most hlgb!" and some, "Hoaanna to the sou of David!" and some, "Worthy la the Lamb that was sLajn!" till all exclamations of endearment and homage ia tbe vocabulary of heaven are exhausted and there comes up surge after surge of "Amen! Ameu! and Amen!" "Eye hath not seen it; ear hath not beard it." Skim from tbe summer waters tbe brightest sparkles, and yo? will get no idea ol the sheeu of the everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors of eatthly cities, and I they would not make a stepplug stoue by whieU you might mount to the city of God. I Every house Is a palace; every house is a j triumph; every covering of tbe b-end a I coronation; every meal is a banquet; every I stroke frosi tbe tower is a weddiug bell; | every day 13 a jubilee, every bour a rapi ture and every moment au ecstasy. "Eye I bath not seen It; ear natu no: beard it." I remark further we can got no Idea of ! the reunions of heaven. If you have ever | been across the seas and met a friend, or ] <jv<ju au acquaintance, in some strange i land, you rimeuibor how your blood j thrilled aud how glad you were to see him. What will be our joy, after wo have pussed I the seas of death, to meet la the bright i city of the Lord those from whom we have j long been separated. After we have teen j away from our friends ten or fifteen yean and we come upon them we see how differently they look. Their hair has turned, and wrlpkle3 have come In their faces, and we say, "How you have changed!" But, oh, when we stand before the throne, all cares gone from the face, all marks or sorrow disappeared, and, feeling the joy of that blessed land, methlnks we will say to each other, with au exultation we cannot. now Imagine, "How you have cbangodl" In this world we only meet to part. It is goodby, goodby; farewells floating in the air. We hear it at the rail car window and at the steamboat wharf?goodby. Children lisp it and old age answers it. Some* times we 9ny it in a light way?"goodby' ?an'd sometimes with anprulsh in which the soul breaks down. Ooodby! Ah, that is the word that ends the thanksgiving banquets! That is the word that cornea ia to close the Christmas chant. Ooodby, goodbvl But not so In heaven. Welcomes in the air, welcomes at the gates, welcomes at the house o? many mansions, but no goodby. That group is constantly being augmented. They are gofag up from our circles of ea"rth to join it?little voices to join the anthem, little hands to take hold ia the great home circle, little fe#t to dance In the eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down before the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups?a group this side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now there goes one from this to that and another from this to that, and soon we will all be gone over. How many of your loved one3 have already entered upon that blessed place? If I should take paper and penoll, do you think I could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar 90 hoarsely we cannot hear the joy on the other side when that group is augmented! A little child's mother had died, and they oomforted her. They said: "Your mother lia3 gone to heaven. Don't cry."v Alia tue nexc aay niBy weai to tue groTayard, and they laid the body of the mothei down into the ground, and the little girl came up to the verge of the crave and, looking down, said: "Is this heaven?" We have no ide^ what heaveu is. It is the grave here, it is darkness here, but there is merrymaking yonder, Methlnks when a soul arrives some angel takes It around to show it the wonders of that blessed place The usher angel says to the newly arrived: "These are the mattyrs that perished at Piedmont; these were torn to pieces at the inquisition; this is the throne of the great Jeuovah; this is Jesus." "I am going to see Jesus," said a dying boy; "I am going toseeJesu?." The missionary said: "Yon rtre sure you will 9ee Him?" "Oh, yes; that's what I want to go to heaven for." "But." said the missionary, "suppose Jesus should go away from heaven?what then?" ' "I should follow him," said the dying boy. "But if Jesus went down to hell?what then?" The dying bo.7 thought for a moment and then said, "Where Jesus Is there can be no hell!" Oh, to stand In his presence! That will be heaven! Oh, to put our hand Into that hand which was wounded for us on the cross, to go around, am Id the xrunptt Ul LLiO [oucDiuan auu guwu i?uua with the prophets aod npostloa hnd martyrs aad with our owa dear beloved onesi That will be the great reunion" We cannot imagine it now. Our loved ones seem so far away. When we are in trouble and lonesome, they don't seem to come to us. We gc on to the banks of the Jordan and call acro99 to them, bat they do not seem to hear. We say, "Is it well with the child, is it well with the loved ones?" and we listen to hear If any voice comes back over the water9l None, none! Unbelletsays, "They are dead, and tboy are annihilated," but, blessed be God, we have a Bible that tells us different. We opan it, and we And they are neither dead nor annihilated, that thej were never so much alive as now, tbat they ???tt <m?1w nrnlHnw frtf mir nnmlno? ntlfl thftfc we shall join then on the other side of the river. Oh, glorious reunion, we cannot grasp it now! "Eye hath not seen,nor eai heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God liath prepared for them that love Him." What a place of explanation it will b el I see every day profound mysteries of providence. There is no question we ask oftener than why? There are hundreds of graves in Greenwood and Laurel Hill that need to be explained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for .the Idiotic and Insane, almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than human solution. God will olear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne no dark mystery can livo. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illumined as plainly as though the answer were written on the jasper wall or sounded in the temple anthem. Bar tlmeus will thank God that he was blia<l and Joseph that ho was cast Into the pit and Daniel-that he denned with the Hods a<id Paul that he was hump-fiacked and David that lie whs driven from Jerusalem and that- invalid that for twenty years he could not lift his head from the pillow, and that widow that she had suet hard work to earn bread for her children. The song will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes and aching hearts and exhausted hands and scourged backs and martyred agonies. But wo can get nc Idea of that anthem here. We appreciate the power of secular music, but do we appreciate the power of sacred sour? There is nothing more inspiring to me than a whole congregation lifted on the wave of holy melody. When we sing some of those dear old psalms and tunes, they rouse all the memories of the past. Why, some of them were cradle songs in our father's oil a .\n v>lr 1 i n rv mlt-li ?hn UUU3U. xunjr lUO Ull opuianut) ?T 1 wu I.UW morning dew of a thousaud Cliriatlaa Sabbaths. They were suns: by brothers and sisters gone now, by voices that were aged and broken lu the music, voices none the less sweet because they did tremble and break. When I hear these old songs suug, it seems as it all the old couutry meeting houses joined In the chorus and city cburoh and sailor's bethel and western cabins until the whole continent lift* the Doxology and the scepters of eternity beat time in | the music. Away then with your starveling tunes that chill the devotions of the sanctuary and uiako tbe people sit silent whea Jesus is marching on to victory. When generals come back from victorious wars, do we not cheer them and shout, "Huzza, hnzzu?" and when Jesus passes along in the conquest of tbe earth shall we not have for Him one loud, ringing > cheer? All hail the powor ot Jesus's name! Let angels prostrate (all. Bring fortli the royal diadem Aud crown Him Lord of all. But, ray friends, if music on earth is 90 nweet what will it be in heaven? They all kuow the tune there. All the best singers ot ail the apes.will join it, choirs of wulte robed children, choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apostles. Morning stars clapping their cymbals. Harpers Wth their harps. Great anthems of God roll on, roll on, other empires joining the haruiouy till the thrones are ull full and .the nations all suved. Anthem shall touch anthem, chorus join dhorus, and all the swnet sounds of eitrth and beardn be poured into the ear of Christ. DaVid or the harp will be there. Gabriel of thff'trotnpet will tfe thrfre. Germany, re* dAnmnd will nnur Its deen. bnss voice into tbe gong, and Africa will add to the music [ with her matchless voices. I wish we could anticipate' that song. I wish in our j closing hymu to-day we might catch an eoho that slips from the gates. Who knows bat that when tbe heavenly door opens today to let some soul through there may come forth the strain ot the jubilant voices until we catch lt?> Ob, that as tbe song drops down from heaven It might meet half way a song ooiniag up from earth! They rise for the doxoiogy, an me multitude of the blessed. Let us rise with them, and so at this hour the joys of the church on earth and the joys of the church la heaven will mingle their chalices, aud the dark apparel of our mourning will seem to , whiten into the spotless raiment of the skies. God grart that through the mercy of our Lord Jesus we may all get there! New Quicksilver Discoveries in Texas. New discoveries of rich qaloksllver deposits havebeen made In Brewster County, Texas, shd another big rush of prospectors to the district has began. A town of over 2000 people has sprung up south of Marathon, near the original discoveries. Its ' uame is Teheaa. 1 - I . .7' * : "GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. 'RECNANT THOUCHT3 FROVI TH? WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. The Beauty of Spring:?Every ITin<lranc? ?i UoI|>?"Stretch forth Thy Hami:"Strength in Weakness?God Abiding in Us? Death ia Sweot. Spring, at last, has spread her changing i skies, And dropped bright tears in sad, impatient moods, let the sweet radiance of her dear smilej lies Upon the tinted violets of the woods. Sometimes there gathers on her faca o j frown, And tnr n mrtmAnt alflet and rattling hai1 I From .sciiddiag clouds fall iu confusion down; Then burets ot sunlight follow the brie? gale. Vnd yet the fickle month, both strange and fair, Does her true work, for ere she goes away She melts the snowdrifts, warms the chilly air, And leaves new glints of green from day to day. May we, too, seek amid .life's ohanging days To do true work?the while we smile and weep? , And leave a touch of verdure in the ways, To brighten paths that other feet must keep. But let us hold in oheok the useless tears, That they may leave behind no lasting trace; And wear Sweet smiles to brighter the old years With the fair light that time cannot efface. ?Mrs. M. A- Holt, in Zion'a Herald. Every Hindi-Have a Help. There is a myth about the birds,that when they were first created they had no wings. The story is that Qoi made the wings, put them down before tne birds, and said: "Now come, take these burdens up a^d bearthem." The birds had beautiful plumage and voices. They could sing and shine, but they oould not soar. But at the word of their Maker, they took up the wings with their beaks and laid them "upon their shoulders to carry them. At flrsc they seemed to be a heavy load and rather difficult to bear. But as they oheerfully and patiently bore them, 'and folded them close over their hearts, lo! the wings grew fast, and that which they once bore now bore them. The burdens became pinions and the weights became wings. Fellow-Christians, we ure the wingless birds. Our duties are the pinions. When at first we assume tnem tney ao seem to be heavy loads. But, glad and happy fact! as we cheerfully bear them on, as #3 obediently tivke up the tasks God elves, as we meet the difficulties, as we ao the duties, the burdens change to pinions, the weights become wings and lift us heaven* ward. Let us, then, with the apostle, "glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hops; and hope cnaketh not ashamed; because the love of Goa is shed abroad in our hearts." Thank God for your testings. Thank God for the difficulties that develop our strength. Thank God for all His disciplinary dealings, for He makes each hindrance a help ind every retarding weight a wing to lift as toward Himself.?Girard B. F. Hallock. D. D., In "Upward Steps." "Stretch Forth Ihy Hand!" As definitely as He dealt with the man in j ;he synagogue with, the withered hand He | :s ready to deal with us at that point o[ our life where weakness nni impotence are I nauifested. He is pointing with His finger j it the impossible thing in our Jives, and j jailing to us to begin to act in the region of | impossibility. This is what the Master al- i ways does. There are men to whom He will jay nothing about the habit of drink. ! Why aot? Because you have no weakness in that direction. How easy it is to give up an- < other man's idols! God does not ask you to j lo that, but points to your weak spot and \ say: "Begin there. Stretch thy hand at that i point." But that is just what I cannot do. Tell me to do anything else but that, and I | ?iil do it. No, the Master passes by all the t ;hings we have been denouncing in other ! i people, because they are no temptation to | , us, and He touches the spot of our weak- I aess, and says. "Stretch forth thy hand." j Look into His face and say: ''Lord, I have i tried again jind again, and have utterly [ailed; bat Thou art aoie?1 win: men | you have touched the place where He communicates to you supernatural, miraculous, 1 positive power, and you, weak, defeated, i jrlpple soul, may stand upon your feet in i ;he strength and energy, not of your own nanbood, but of the manhood and of the i Sodhood of Christ.?Rev. G. Campbell Mor- | ;an. 1 Strength in Weakness. j It was Paul who said, "When I am weak, . then am I Btrong." Strange paradox! Weakness is usually the product of weak- 1 aess. Thls ls the natural wrder. But, as is 1 jfteu the case, grace reverses nature, and 1 the weak man is the strong man, the two ! qualities, weakuess and strength,existing at the same time ana la tne same person. it , Is a conscious weakness as well as a conscious strength. "When I am weak"? ! when I [eel weak, know that I am weak,and ! im bumbled by the Knowledge. Humility is ; ;be com panion of wenkness;they trudge along j side by side. Tho feeling of weakness causes as to distrust ourselves, and to look to the Master for help and strength. The feeling as ;o self and tbe Helper is expressed in the words, "I am weak, but Thou art mighty;" md. trustiug in the Mighty One, wblle our , weakness is accentuated, our strength is smphasized, and we are like giants refreshed . with new wine. There is a point beyond which it is not wise to go in distrusting self. ! We should have a proper conception of our . own ability and possibilities, but at thesame ( :ime we should know the Source of our strength, and realize the fucttbat "Without Me. ys can do nothing;1'' and with it that other fact: "I can do all things through Christ which strengthen*^ me."?Rev. S. L. ! Hamilton, in Zion's Herald. J .?- j God Ab.dlni ia Vf. We are moat o( us more or le39 out of loiut with our environment. That environment i9 God. who encompasses our path behind and before. Depravity is simply maladjustment. Sin is being at cross-pur-' j poses with the Lord of all things, of being , out of tuno with the will divine. When our ( personality, our plan, our power, Is thor- , oughly thrust into the background that God's may como to the front?we helping Him, not He us ?the best results are swiftly reached. Our Saviour said: ! "The Son can <lo nothing of himself." "I am in my Father, and tae Father in me; the Father abiding in me doeth his works." And in like manner St. Paul. "I will not dare to speak," he said, "of any things save ; those which Christ wrought through me." A.nd such must be our utterance. When ] God abiding in us doeth His works through t us, then how easily the work Is done, how permanent and blessed the result. { Death is as sweet a.s the flower* are. It Is as.blessed as a bird .sinking in spring. 1 never hear of the death of any one that is ready to die that my heart does not sing like a lmrp. I am sorry for those who are left bihind, but not for those who are gone before.?Henry Ward Beeeher. Tho whole life of a Christian is a steady aiming at conformity with Christ; so that in anything, whether doiug or suffering, there can be no argument so apposite and persua*' | ive as bis e :araple.? Robert Leighton. SUEZ CANAL'S RECORD FOR 1899 Last Year'i Business Was the Largest In It? UUtory. T.ast vear's business of the Suez Canal was tho largest In its history, according to a report to tbe State Department at Washington from Vice Consul General Hunter at Cairo, Egypt. Vessels to the number of 3480 and of a gross tonnage of 9,833,022, passed thrqugh tbe canal, paying for the privilege 517,510,142. Tho United States stood eleventh ou the list of nations, with only twenty-live ships. British vessels were the most numerous, tbe number boing 2207. The Germans came next with r 378, the Frf.uch third with 223, the Dutch' fourth with 205, and the Austriuns llf/j with 102. r ( / T- ' ' 54\ % 1 . ' ' V-*;? . ' TEE SABBATH-SCHOOL. IMTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 3. Subject: The Twelve Sent Forth, Matt, lx., 35 to z., ??Golden Text, Mate. x. 2??Memory Ver*e?, lx., 3G-33?Cornmeutury ou the I>ay'* Leaaon. 33. "J8SU3 went about." Tills show3that Josu3 was actively engaged in tbe work. "The cosnel of tlie kingdom." He pro- i claimed the good news of His spiritual kingdom which He cams to set up in the hearts of men. Paul says it consists of "righteousness, peace and joy ia the Holy Ghost." He told them of a kingdom of grace and glory nor? to be set up under the government of a Mediator. "And healing every sickness." To His preaching He jolos all works of mercy and temporal assistance to the bodies of mer. "Among the people." He taught not only in the wealthy cities, but in the poor villagesand In the private houses, and wherever He found earnest hearers. 36. "When He saw the multitudes." The oountry was very densely populated at this lihne. This and the next two verses are an Introduction to the account given In the following chapter. Several reasons led to His commissioning the twelve apostles and sending them out to preaoh. (1) The growing eagerness of the people to hear the new gospel. The demand could not be satisfied by one preachT. (2) The growing opposition of the Pharisees made apparent the necessity of not only appointing, but of training men to preach Christ's gospel. (3) It was because He Eitled the multitude, who were like arassed and panting sheep wlthont a shepherd, and like a harvest left unreapt for want of laborers. "With oompasslon." An emphatic word showing how Christ was moved in His great love for tt?* people. A. t M n "joecause tuey KUULOU. X/IOUCSSOU uuu scattered. R. V. This refers to their spiritual condition rather than to their physical ailments. "As sheep." No creature is more apt to go astray than a sheep, and haying gone astray none are more helpless. They are exposed to hunger, cold and ravenous bensts. Sinful souls are as lost sheep. "Having no shepherd." They had many teachers, but none who cared for their souls, and none who were ubie, if they had been willing, to give them suah instruction as they needed. Their teachers, instead of serving God, served tbetr own glory and gain. 37. "Harvest plenteous laborers few." TQere are multitudes to be won for the new kingdom?multitudes prepared to hear, for their spirits were broken under personal and national sorrow; but the number of right teachers was small.?Gelkle. The Lord of the harvest was being deprived of His harvest for want of laborers to gather it in. What an accusation against the, scribes and priests! 88. "Pray ye therefore." Successful laborers are obtained In answer to prayer. When things look discouruging we should pray more and fear less. "The Lord of the harvest." The great, divine Teacher. The one who Is able to give a harvest of souls. "Send forth." Prepare and call many to preach the gospel. There is something greater than preaching and/that Is to make preachers. Those whom God sends forth succeed, those wbo send themselves forth, sooner or later fall.N How shall wo preach except we be sent? "Laborers.*' Jesns wants laborers; there are ohly 'a very few wno really work. A careless, easy-going minister will always do'actual harm. 1. "His twelve disciples." Alter spending the preceding night in prayer, the Lord called the disciples together 'and chose twelve, whtoh suggests that He bad In mind the twelve patriarchs, beads of the tribes of Israel. They were called together as disciples, bat after receltiog authority they became apostles. "He gave tbem power." Luke adds, "authority." AJl rightful authority iaderlred-from Jesus Christ. All power is given unto Him, in heaven and in earth, and He alone can dispense power. "Against unclean spirits." "Over unclean spirits." R. V. The casting out of unclean spirits is here reCerred to as distinct from healing diseases. "And to heal." The Sdesign of the gospel wag to conquer the devil and cure the world. The power and authority thus given them would enable them to oommand the attention and respect of even the scribes and Pharisees. 2. "Apostles." The only place in this gospel where the word is used. It means, to send forth. The names of the twelve fipostles were: Simon, Peter, Andrew, - /ilo_ J ft ED 03, ilQUQ, rtlilip, JDiUkUuivmonr thanaol), Thomas (Didymus), Matthew [Levi), James the son of Alphens (called ulso James tjie Less, or little, because be was small of stature), Jade (Jadas, Lebbeas, Thaddeus. The brother of James the Less, and author of tbeepistle which bears his name), Simon the Ganaanlte ("called also Simon Zelotes, or Simon the Zealot, Canaanlte has no reference to Oanaan, but is derived from the Hebrew kana, zeal, md was applied to Simon because of bis great zeal in preaohing tbe gospel of Christ), and Judas Iscarlot. 5. "Sent forth." They were sent two by two (Mark 6:7) In different directions, rhey were not to go aloue. Each must have a companion to give counsel and help to each other In difficulties, and to cheer aach other on the way. They would thus reach different classes of miads, und accomplish more real work- Two are more hnn t-urinn nns. ,!Oa not." Do not take iny road leading to Gentile population. rh? time bad not come for establishing missions to the Gentiles. A base of operations must be secured among tbe Jews. This limitation was confined to this mission. "Enter ye not." Salvation must flrst bo offered to the Jews, aud to have gone Jo the Samaritans at tbis time would httVe been a stumbllog-block to the Jews. 6. "To tbe lost sheep." The Jewish church was the ancient fold ot God, but the sheep had wandered away and were lost, and unless they were again found ind brought back to God tbey would be lost eternally. "House of Israel." Tbe Tews, descendants ot Israel. He looked with compassion upon them because tbey bad strayed into the paths of sin aud srror, and were In a wandering and dangerous condition. "Tbe Gentiles also had i boen as lost sheep.'' 1 Pet., 2:25. 7. "Preach." They were to be itinerant preachers. "Kingdom of heaven is at tmnd." We should slill make the kingdom at heaven the subject of" our preaching, and tell the world tbat the kingdom has some. The King is now here, and salvation 13 offered freely to all who will repent. Matt. 3; 2; 4:17. 8. "Raise the dead." This is wanting in many manuscripts, aaa is Deuevea uy am - | sral good authorities to be spurious, although retaiaed in R. V. The first Instance In which an apostle raised the dead is recorded In the books of Acts. 9:36-42. It 3oeras very improbable that our Lord imparted at 90 early a period this highest of all forms of supernatural power. "Freely a;ive." As you have received miraculous powers without paying for them, exert those powers without receiving compensation. ; SOUTH DAKOTA DAIRY INDUSTRYJ| Phenomenal Growth In Lnat Few Year/. 179 Creaxniirlea Now Runntug. f The phenomenal growth of the dARy industry in South Dakota has na^er been more evident than at the Mfosent time. Seven years ago there was n#t a creamery in the Stale; to-day there tvfre 179 running every day and doing a hfasiness of more than $4,500,000 a year. J Nearly all the creame/fies are ruanlDg oa the co-operative plaiyf The returns from creamery butter ab&ne now reach more than $1,600,000. Mpfny farmers who formerly lived on rentefd farms lu States further ??st have withliu^he nast four or five years, With a few ROOdf cows^and the money they bad to pay ouy for rent in the East, bought and paid {or good farms in South Dakota and are noW Entirely out of debt. *fjerr Source of X-Hayg, Professor Trowbridge, director of t!? Jefferson Physical Laboratory, at Cambridge, llalss., has perfected a new method of obtaining x-rays. Heretofore, the. currents of ekeetrlolty used In making photographs h/ive bison fluctuating, making the pictures of uncertain value to aursreoas. Trofes^or Trowbridge ha3 succeeded In Kettipj; a steady curreut and the pictures tukeyti by his system uro remarkable for the clmyr and distinct outlines of the mu.-clas untl bout?3 of the subject, /f Population of Berlin, The population of Berlin, according to the statistics of the Municipality, is now 1.813.000. ' V ' V ' " 1 ' V *>A ! THE GREAT DESTROYER.I I i SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT ' I THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The DroneR Sell Rum?A Powerfal Answer to tlio Charge That Temperance Advocate* Exaggerate?ItU Impossible to Speak Too Strongly on the Subject, What are our liquor-sellers? The drones of tlio community; they feed On the Mechanic's labor, the starved hind. For them compola the stubborn glebe to yield Its unsbared harvest; and your squalid form Drags out in labor a protracted death To glut their grandeur. ?^IhAllAV Exaggeration and the Saloon. Professor W. 0. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, whose experiments are said to have developed tbe fact that alcobol Is a food and not a poison, has been heard from again. This time be says, "The great obstacle In the wty of temperance reform is the bablt of exaggeration." Now that is refresbingl It bas not been thought hitherto that the evils of the saloon could be exaggerated. Tbe same authority adds, "Alcohol supplies fuel to the body." And is that all? We bad supposed that It applied fuel to the soul, and that the fuel it supplies to the body would ultimately oonsume it with the soul in bell. That is alcohol's reputation In this community. But Dr. Atwater, who, by the way, is as sincere as he is probably capable, but whoso honest opinions are being made exceedingly profitable to the Amerloau saloon, says the friends of temperance hlndei their cause by "the bablt of exaggeration." It would be no more difficult to exaggerate tbe flendlsbness of tbe deyll or the horrors of hell than to speak too vigorously against the evils of intemperance. Amid the melancholy ruins of desolated homes and hearts, and surrounded by the wreokago of u*oa wuiv;u uui iui lu^Aicauug u^uviia would have been strong and pare, there la no danger that oar too-feeble language will make It possible for us to exaggerate Instead of exuggeratlngjthe awful crime* that lie within and without the saloon'i green baize door which swings both ways into despair, all the temperance reformer* In the world put together oan not tell halt tbe terrible truth. Before we can get beyond the ample borders of the facts about the drink vice to where exaggeration might begin it would be necessary to know all the bidden secrets of sorrowing homes and lives, all the records kept In heaven, and nil the llfe-storles of the hopeles* dwellers in hell; and, possessing this knowledge, he would recite It must speak contlnuously for a hundred generations before he could tell enough of the black history even to be tempted to exaggerate. Vft have not been exaggerating the poison side of Satan's favorite beverages?we, perhaps, did not know until Dr. Atwater told ut 'that alcohol was a food or a fuel, but w< did knowtbatlt very promptly makes i man's body food for worms and his souJ fuel for the eternal burning. Have we not seen it blight a million lives in their bloom, and other millions before their birth? Hav^ we not seen it prostitute womanhood U brutishness and manhood to worse thai beastliness? Tlease do not accuse us then of exaggerating what transforms Eden inte bedlam, angels Into demons, heaven int< hell. We resent auy accusation that w^ could, if we would, exaggerate the wnni aud.wretchedness which strew rags and bleeding hearts and mangled lives along the whole foul track of this death-dealing,, disease-breeding, fllth-produclng, mortality-destroying, reason-dethroning serpent ui iuo euiuuu, . Hiiunted by no fear that we might evei be able to tell more than the truth, w? stand aghast in the presence of the legal< lzed saloon and wish it were possible t< tell the American voter even half of thf truth about rum and the ruin it is licensee to bring into our land. Surely, surely eve? half the truth would be enough to shut u{ these food shops of the devil, these coai yards,of hell. Oh, yes, alcohol Is a food and a faellCumberland Presbyterian. Drankeniieas at Manila. A personal letter recently received frott army headquarters in Manila was dul*. signed by an offlcor who does not partlcu." larly request that his name be kept prii vate, but so many soldiers have been mad? to suffer for t?e truth which thev hav< spoken thu we will for the present wlth< Hold bis name, He -says: "I have always been an admirer of thi Ram's Horn, and I trust that you will continue to flght against every form of sin, and especially against the legalized llquoi traffic, whose iniquity I never fully appret elated until coming to the Philippines. Th< infamoas business thrives here under tbi enegetlo manipulation of American saloon- i keepers to an alarming extent. No report! J that I have read In the home papers havt J exaggerated the conditions. I aover san M so much drunkenness elsewhere."?Bam'' 1 Horn. fl World'* Temperance Congress. jfl A notable gathering of this year will b< * the world's temperance congress, whlcli meets in London next June. More than / twenty temperance societies, representing f religious, scientific and independent bodies * in different countries of the world, will give accounts of their work and its results darleg the century. f : Tbe Continental societies are chiefly com- ' posed of clergymen and medical men, and ' their work will be presented mostly from / the moral and soolologlcal sides, Thi 1 strictly scientific societies are English and I American, one studying alcohol and Its ef- i fects, tbe otber the disease of luebrletyand / ltfl cause?. The Blsbop of London will preside at the j meetings, and Bobert Rae, a pioneer In fht J temperance cause, will arrange the pro / gramme. / An Unholy Bond. / Liquor selling 1? universally acknoTR. edged a curse, bat not a folony. The sk. loon victim Is a sooial outcast, but the ?a. loon keeper and the brewer and dlstljier nre the companions of politicians And princes. And yet civilization is progfressinj?, though with dragging sten^ f0t hanging to her am la the rum-selU?rclaims her company and protection. They nre united by bonds of self-lntOM^, They married for money, and though civilization has nothing but loathing contempt for her life companion. ther wl ot)Am Q HQ VAt no arm brave enough no^Jtronsr enough to break the unholy b^fud which unites A I.ectjjffg [tielf. A young I&3jyzealous In temperance work asked ascertain butcher to donate one dollar toflfard meeting the expenses of a temperance lecture that she whs endeavorlnig to secure. She did not expect to get/i?! and was therefore somewhat 9urp$ftge<l when he promptly handed har a Kraignbaok, saying, "l'es I will give you a iimlar. I can well afford to, for I havfc ^sold more meat in this town since it went 'no license' than I used to in a whole week when we bad saloons." Was not this a lecture for "no license?" The Crasade In Brier. i\*oi one drop of Intoxicating liquor Is allowed to be sold at auy of the military camps of Canada. The sale of liquor has been almost wholly abolished during the six mouths trial ot prohibition inLowell, llass. Uuder license 100,000 barrels used to bo shipped iuto tbe :Ity annually Dr. Edward Abbott snys: "I see mow jaloons within five mlnules' walk of oue of cue great railway stations m aiostou, and more drunken 'natives' in .1 siugla week between Boston and Cambridge than I saw during u ten months' journey of 40,000 miles by land and sea around tho world." Tbe Havana Herald brings tbe news tha' in American brewery is shortly to be opened in tnat city, which will have a capacity of 50,000 barrels of beer per year. Recently, cannibals attacked a Presbyterian mission station in tlieNew liobrides, and killed and ate two missionaries from London. Tbe cause was the continual sale of alcoholic liquors, which New Hebrides missionaries have been begging the British, tbe United ifates, tho French and the Australian governments to prohibit. Dr. Norman Kerr says: "Alcohol is physiologically aDd psychologically not the friend but the enemy of man; undermining bis bodily structure, diminishing his health, impairing his muscular activity aud capacity, and shortening life. Tho tendency of alcohol ts to te a body destroyer and a uruin beguller."